Shane, 29, made the shocking comments in an episode of his podcast Shane And Friends, which originally aired four years ago.

About seven minutes into the podcast episode, Shane begins to recount his meeting with a six-year-old Instagram influencer.

'The six-year-old goes, "Oh, how many followers do you have?" First of all, it was almost like one of those contests that is like, how big is your d**k,' he said.

'And this kid slapped her huge d**k on the table and was, like, a six-year-old who goes "Oh, I have 125,000." Her d**k was almost as big as mine.'

Shane continues replaying the conversation, adding:'And I said, "OK little big d**k, why do you have so many followers? And she goes "Oh I'm a cheerleader", and I'm like, "Oh really", and she shows me her Instagram, which I'm like—first of all, I don't know if I'm not allowed to say this, but she's, like, sexy.'

At this point, his then co-anchor, Lauren Schnipper, chimes in and tells Shane: 'You're disgusting.'

Shane, however, goes on to say: 'No, listen. We've talked about paedophilia before.'

Lauren attempts to give him a firmer warning, telling him: 'No no no, Shane, do not say this. I don't even want to talk about it. You will get arrested.'

Then Lauren explains to the listeners: 'He has this justification for paedophilia and it's so disturbing, and I just pretend that he doesn't.'

He then launches into his explanation, prefacing it with: 'First of all, let me just say. Having sex with children or touching children or anything of that nature is terrible and you should not do it.'

Shane then continues: 'But, here's my thing. People have foot fetishes, people have fetishes about everything, and there's websites on the internet where they can look at that weird creepy s**t and jerk off to it. OK, fine, everybody do your thing.

'So why is it that when someone Googles, like, "naked baby" and jerks off to it, they can get arrested? I don't understand that.'

His dumbfounded co-anchor thus tries to explain to Shane why looking at pornographic images of children is illegal, but struggles to find her words.

'Because there's a naked b— Because they had to— Because somebody took a picture of a naked baby,' she finally says.

'And by the way they're not googling "naked baby." They're googling, like, I'm not going to say what they're googling, I mean I watch a lot of Law and Order so like—'

Incredibly, Shane cuts her off at that point to share more damning revelations.

'But here's the worst part of it, I actually went to Google and I'm like, "I want to see..."' he begins.

Lauren exclaims: 'You can get arrested!'

Shane continues: 'I know! I didn't want to see child porn. I just wanted to see, like, OK, let me pretend like I'm a paedophile for a second.'

That is when Lauren chimes in to state: 'OK, by the way, just for the record, police, I have nothing to do with this. I didn't know this. You can literally get arrested for saying this.'

'Let me finish,' Shane insists. 'So I typed in "naked baby". First of all, I don't understand why anybody would be turned on by that.'